To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

My future is one I must make myself.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.